Well, the guy who wrote GNU Emacs is Rich Stallman. He can be reached at [log in to unmask] Please note that anything Rich writes will most likely be covered by the GNU Public License, which has been referred to as the "gnu public virus" due to some of its "copyleft" features. Please read it *carefully* to determine if the conditions are acceptable - for instance, at least one incarnation of the liscence required that if you used the GNU 'gcc' C compiler (also a Stallman production) to compile something, if you sold or even *gave* the resulting binary to somebody, you had to give them the source to your program as well. Other than that, Rich is quite the programmer - both the GNU Emacs editor and the GNU gcc compiler are regarded as among the best in their respective fields... Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Engineer Virginia Polytechnic Institute P.S. There's a chapter on Stallman in Steven Levy's book "Hackers"....